I can't stand Pringles and want him gone, but it's silly to fire him at this point. The roster has been decimated by injuries and we were never going anywhere this season anyway. Might as well make him work for his money and replace him when it actually matters.

LakersN4 wrote:There isn't a coach out there that would get more out of the personnel we have right now.

I'm going to agree, I can't stand 'Antoni, but I don't see a single coach out there that could get more out of this current roster. Fire him if we get a title contending roster put together somehow, and a better coach becomes available. There's no point in firing him, still having to pay him, and bringing in someone who will do no better.

We overachieved early, and injuries have killed us lately, that's not really on the coach. Whatever Mitch and 'Antoni are discussing I'd hope it was personnel moves. I don't think there's a chance he'll be fired either, it would make no sense, no coach out there could get more out of the players who are actually seeing the floor right now.

We're a team of all role players, our backup PG is from the D-League, Farmar is still working back off injury, we lost Henry this game, and have been without Kobe, Pau, Blake, and Nash a lot of the time now. I'm not saying we'd be great if healthy, just that we'd be in the hunt for the 7th or 8th seed, we were playing solid ball right before Farmar went down, then again before Blake and Kobe went down. Then again though, this 'closed door meeting' was probably nothing at all.

Who cares who the coach is right now? No coach is going to turn around a roster who's best player is Nick Young. We just really can't catch a break the last couple years, but guess what? That's the price you pay sometimes for greatness. We've had an incredible 17 year run with Kobe. Now we deal with some of the downfalls of having an aging star.

Every time I begin to ask, "Is he really as great as I think he is?" ...He proves that he is.Every time I begin to wonder...He proves it...That is why I won't lose hope in him.You know who I am talking about.

CarFlagChris wrote:The terrible defense and lack luster effort and losing streak (Utah excepted) is a reflection on the coach. Also, I hate his offense of jacking up threes. Time to let Kurt Rambis take over.

I agree. They need:

1. A more traditional offense, which means they need a new coach;2. Enough excuses about the roster, we went through this with Brown which bought him time only to be fired at the beginning of the season;3. Enough with the "stretch 4"; let's have a true power forward. Hill can handle that;4. Get 2 guys in the post for high percentage shots, not 1 soft guy and the stretch 4 on the 3pt line. Hill, Kaman and Gasol should be able to handle that;5. Slow the damn game down and sprint when appropriate, no more helter skelter haul a$$ up and down the court shooting 3's then getting torched on transition defense. At lease leave that to the 2nd team to do a la the "Killer B's" a few years ago;

If you think the 1st half of the season has been long, wait until after the All Star break when the other teams will be making a run for playoff seeding, meanwhile MDA will still be rotating Williams or Kelly to see which is the better stretch 4 .

Rambis has become a pretty good coach. He is Phil's #1 protégé. The issue now is that MDA needs to hold the team accountable for defensive assignments. Unfortunately it's not in his DNA to hold them accountable for anything but making shots, so they don't feel like they have to try on the defensive end.

V.V.V.V.V. wrote:Rambis has become a pretty good coach. He is Phil's #1 protégé. The issue now is that MDA needs to hold the team accountable for defensive assignments. Unfortunately it's not in his DNA to hold them accountable for anything but making shots, so they don't feel like they have to try on the defensive end.

Antoni gets all the heat for the lack of D but isn't that Rambis department? So what if he was Phil's #1 protege, he failed miserably in Minn and he'll fail miserably here too if he got the HC job.